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Showing posts with label Dakota Sandstone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dakota Sandstone. Show all posts
Thursday, June 13, 2013

A Tale of Two Arches, But Not in Arches

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Travelers in the southwest might get the idea that arches can only be seen in Arches National Park in Utah. It's true that Arches Nati...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Cretaceous Parks of the Colorado Plateau: Walled Cities and Tragedy

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A walled city of 400-500 people, surrounded by tilled fields, and constantly subject to attack during its short existence in the 13th centu...
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Monday, January 5, 2009

The Cretaceous Parks of the Colorado Plateau: The View is Nice but Access is a Problem...

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Looking for a good fixer-upper in Utah/Colorado? Have I got a place for you! This is one of a continuing series on the geology of the Colora...
Sunday, November 30, 2008

The REAL Jurassic Parks were really Cretaceous

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As any knowledgeable fifth-grader could tell you, few of the dinosaurs in the movie Jurassic Park had anything to do with the Jurassic Peri...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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